So much for privacy ... AAPL, GOOG and other tech stocks that have your personal information

One of the big technology stories of 2013 has been ‘PRISM gate’ — the revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly accessing the private data of U.S. and international citizens who use web-based services from the likes of Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), Facebook (FB) and others. Even if tech companies aren’t directly making use of your personal information, they’re still collecting and storing it, leaving it vulnerable to hackers, rogue employees and government agencies.

Here’s a list of five tech stocks that may know a lot more about you than you realize: some of the biggest technology companies on the planet, plus one company you’ve probably never heard of that puts the rest to shame when it comes to personal data collection.